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Poland unveils country’s fastest ever supercomputer the size of a small APARTMENT

Named Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the computer has a mind-boggling computing power of over 7.7 petaflops and according to Kraków’s elite AGH University of Science and Technology, is set to give a boost to Polish science and innovation. Łukasz Gągulski/PAP

Named Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the computer has a mind-boggling computing power of over 7.7 petaflops and according to Kraków’s elite AGH University of Science and Technology, is set to give a boost to Polish science and innovation.

Looted WWII masterpiece goes back on display after being found in shopping centre car park

Unveiled on Tuesday in the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in the Kraków’s Cloth Hall, Maksymilian Gierymski's 1872 landscape Winter in a Small Town is considered one of the most important pieces of Polish art.

Sleeping in a winter wonder home! Kraków uni builds hibernation homes for hedgehogs

Around 18 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, the housing complex was designed to resemble a mini-version of the AGH University of Science and Technology’s building, so that, as the organisers put it, the hedgehogs “immediately feel that they live at AGH”.

Five Polish universities join European Universities Initiative

The European Commission announced on Thursday that five Polish universities have been added to the consortia of the European Universities Initiative.

Pawsome Idea! Friends launch Booksy-style service for pets after near fatal experience

The project brings together a range of animal services and present them under one, easy-to-use umbrella so pet owners can choose the services they require more easily.

Happy Appy Happy Talk: New app identifies diseases through speech patterns

With multiple medical conditions known to cause changes in how we speak, which is one of the first signs of emerging illnesses, Kraków startup Techmo has developed a clever app to help early detection.

Cosmic! Ace space team from Kraków wins international Mars rover comp

The AGH Space Systems' Kalman rover beat 20 teams from around the world, including three from Poland, to take first place in the Indian Rover Challenge competition to design and build a Mars rover.

Kraków team launches world’s FIRST satellite which navigates with ‘spinning magnetic liquid’

The fifth Polish satellite in near-Earth orbit, the KRAKsat will be the world’s first to use a ferrofluid flywheel. The main task of the satellite is to investigate how this will behave in space and whether it can be used in the space industry as a flywheel.

Over-droid: student gets top marks for making Star Wars robot

An engineering student makes waves in academia and on the internet by making a BB-8 replica for her thesis.

Kraków students build first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland

Students from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (southern Poland) have constructed the first mechanical rolling footbridge in Poland. The footbridge is 3.35 m long and is able to support weights of up to 200 kg, the university announced.

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